Tiny Baseball Lessons: The MLB Postseason, Explained

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Tiny Baseball Lessons: The MLB Postseason, Explained

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Hey babes!

We've spent all season talking about division leaders, Wild Card races, clinching scenarios and tiebreakers. But what actually happens once a team makes the postseason?

In this Tiny Baseball Lesson, we're putting the entire MLB playoff picture together from start to finish ~

We're breaking down:

How 12 teams qualify for the postseason
Division winners vs. Wild Card teams
What playoff seeds actually mean
Why the top two seeds get a first-round bye
How the Wild Card Series works
The ALDS and NLDS
The ALCS and NLCS
How home-field advantage changes between rounds
How a team finally reaches the World Series
Why regular-season tiebreakers suddenly matter so much in September

Plus, we walk through the postseason picture as it stands on September 14 and see what the matchups would look like if the playoffs started today.

The easiest way to remember it?

12 teams → Wild Card Series → Division Series → Championship Series → World Series.

Six months and 162 games have been building toward this. Now it's almost time to see how the season ends!!